Aïssa Djabri, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
The butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 24, 2003
Stats: 319 reviews
Intense, visceral, raw. hard to digest and yet interesting existentialist tale of a god's lonely man, a troubledmind french butcher who will take what he conciders fair, no matter who falls on the way. director Gaspár Noe homage to Godard and Scorsese. not for the faint-hearted.
I was kind of surprised at how tame the film was considering all the hype about how shocking and disturbing it is. The intertitle with the warning had me anticipating something truly sick and deprived but the outcome wasn't quite up to snuff. But overall the use of intertitles ...( read more)
More than a sequel to the butcher's short in Carne,Nahon methodically shares with us fears and loathings in a Miserere of illusions.Perhaps the downwardness of it all.
After seeing Gaspar Noé's masterpiece Irréversible, I had to check out his other creations. "Seul contre tous", just like Irréversible, has a highly disturbing story, with down-right evil characters. In this movie Noé deals with dark human behavior from a quite different perspect...( read more)
This film's definitely well-made, and I don't mean technically speaking, I mean well made through and though.
The drawback?
Well it sits in your stomach as well as curdled milk
that's been sitting on a radiator
for 5 years
It's vicious in it's own way, to say the least.
Noé has described Seul contre tous as ?the tragedy of a jobless butcher (Philippe Nahon) struggling to survive in the bowels of the country?, but it is quite a bit more than that (3). Noé's goal in making the film was to create a film so confrontational and so in opposition with ...( read more)
I think I was in my late teens when I stumbled upon this one. My first introduction to Gasper Noe. Not as shocking as Irreversible, but still very disturbing especially the last few minutes of the ending. Actually, if I remember correctly, there was a disclaimer telling the audie...( read more)
Frustrates me because everyone describes it as a shocking piece of disturbing cinema, yet it's so tame and restrained. How exactly does a bunch of (Well written) monologue get to you unless you're some impressionable depressive? Don't get me wrong - I *want* to be disturbed, but ...( read more)
i have seen so much films like that ....and i am a little bored . in the times we live i do need to see something really different
Here is a very grinding and cynical testimony of how meaningless and vile our existences are :-)
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